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To what can this unjust, this illiberal feeling be attributed?
CURIOSITIES OF MEDICAL EXPERIENCEJ. G. (JOHN GIDEON) MILLINGEN
It is also very proper to banish, both from their hearing and sight, everything which is illiberal and the like.
POLITICSARISTOTLE
The surprising thing is that in this illiberal world they travel so freely.
THE CROW'S NESTCLARENCE DAY, JR.
The motive was illiberal and dishonest, and showed that more than sixty years had not been able to teach him morality.
LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS: WALLER, MILTON, COWLEYSAMUEL JOHNSON
The viceroy does not send the orders which are given him from there; they can not be so illiberal.
But I am sure none of us would ever be so illiberal as to throw that up against you.
THE FAR HORIZONLUCAS MALET
Such were the positive orders of that illiberal and corrupt minister,—Mr. Henry Dundas.
These are various, some perhaps too liberal and some perhaps too illiberal.
Too illiberal, you think; and what would Mr. J. S. Mill say?
THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVEJOHN RUSKIN
He was hospitable from ostentation, illiberal from ignorance, and prejudiced from conceit.
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WORDS RELATED TO ILLIBERAL
- Tory
- bourgeois
- constant
- controlled
- conventional
- die-hard
- fearful
- firm
- fogyish
- fuddy-duddy
- guarded
- hard hat
- hidebound
- holding to
- illiberal
- in a rut
- inflexible
- middle-of-the-road
- not extreme
- obstinate
- old guard
- old line
- orthodox
- quiet
- reactionary
- redneck
- right
- right of center
- right-wing
- sober
- stable
- steady
- timid
- traditional
- traditionalistic
- unchangeable
- unchanging
- uncreative
- undaring
- unimaginative
- unprogressive
- white bread
- bigoted
- bourgeois
- commonplace
- conforming
- conservative
- demure
- doctrinal
- dogmatic
- drippy
- hackneyed
- hidebound
- humdrum
- illiberal
- in rut
- inflexible
- insular
- isolationist
- lame
- literal
- moderate
- moral
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- not heretical
- obstinate
- parochial
- pedestrian
- prosaic
- puritanical
- rigid
- routine
- rube
- run-of-the-mill
- sober
- solemn
- square
- stereotyped
- straight
- straight-laced
- strict
- stuffy
- uptight
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